Polar Bears hanging out at an abandoned weather station on Kolyuchin Island in the Arctic Ocean.

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image showing Polar Bears hanging out at an abandoned weather station on Kolyuchin Island in the Arctic Ocean.

ganymede_boy on January 10th, 2022 at 12:53 UTC »

"Ah! Vladimir! Is you! You bring vodka yes? Alexei, come look outside. Is Vladimir with vodka!"

Spartan2470 on January 10th, 2022 at 13:37 UTC »

Here is a higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Credit to the photographer, Dmitry Kokh, who took this at an abandoned Soviet weather station on Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea. Per here (which has more pictures of this):

“I always wanted to get some nice shots of polar bears, and that was the main target of our expedition. We expected to meet them mostly on Wrangel Island, famous all around the world for being home to many bears. Not this year, as we found out later—maybe because of the very cold summer. But nature always sends you something when you least expect it—when we passed by Kolyuchin Island near the Northern coast of Chukotka, we saw some movement in the abandoned windows there. And when we got close—those were bears! Never before were they seen in those buildings, so that was once-in-a-lifetime situation.”

Per the IG source at master.blaster,:

Kolyuchin Bay

Bear house. Polar bears at an abandoned meteorological station on Kolyuchin Island - dream shot from our Chukotka trip.

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Here is a video of this.

littletimmysquiggins on January 10th, 2022 at 13:44 UTC »

No power, water, or heat; just the bear necessities.

I hate myself just a little bit more now.